Free printable · Template 21

Sub plans you can fill in at six in the morning

Every line on this page can be answered in a few words. Nothing on it asks you to write a lesson while you are sitting on the edge of the bed deciding whether you can make it in.

21Family 5 · Planning

Sub Plans

Everything you need for one day in this room

Your Teacher Our Class
Room ____________

Date
Substitute
Students today
TimeSubjectWhat to do

Students who can help you

Routines
Technology
Lining up

Adults nearby

Next door
Team lead
Front office

Room routines worth knowing

Please leave me a note about the day

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Why this one looks like this

It is written for the worst morning, not the best one

Nobody fills in sub plans on a calm Sunday. They get filled in at six in the morning, one-handed, by somebody who has already decided they are too sick to drive.

So every line here can be answered in a few words. Times, subjects, and one short instruction each. There is no box asking what your learning objective is, because at six in the morning the honest answer is "keep them busy and safe until I am back," and a page that will not accept that answer just does not get filled in.

A blank page is the most common set of sub plans in America. This one is trying to beat blank.

Two lists most sub plans leave off

Students who can help. Every class has a child who knows the routine better than any adult in the building. Naming three of them saves a substitute an hour.

Adults nearby. Next door, team lead, front office. A substitute who does not know who to ask will not ask.

  • ScheduleEight blocks: time, subject, and what to do
  • HelpersThree students and three adults, by name
  • RoutinesTick boxes for the things nobody thinks to write down
  • Notes backSpace for the substitute to tell you how it went
  • PrintOne page, black and white, half-inch margins

One thing worth doing now

Fill in the parts that never change, today

Room routines, the three helpful students, who is next door, the front office extension. None of that changes week to week, and all of it is what takes longest to think of when you feel awful.

Print two or three copies with those parts already filled in and leave them in a folder on your desk. On the bad morning all you add is the date and the schedule.

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